Leah Abbott Belser v. Blount County (Appeal from Blount Circuit Court: CV-22-900108).

Summary

The court affirmed the judgment for Blount County, holding that Belser's challenge to the validity of the lodging-tax statute depended on a nonjusticiable political question. The Alabama Constitution commits each legislative house authority over its own proceedings, and the court found no judicially manageable standard for determining how the phrase "not less than three-fifths of a quorum present" must be applied. Because the political-question issue was dispositive, the court did not address Belser's remaining arguments.